Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. Changes you make to this profile may be lost This is of course just a home laptop with a single user. A corrupt profile is suspected but no idea how it happened or how to correct it. Note if one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message: chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.
Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? Many Thanks for your help. Quick update if anyone stumbles across this thread. A week later the Black screen of doom even worse than the blue screen of death manifested itself for at least the 3rd time in this Compaq's life As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts. M 3 minutes ago. Windows Login to the old account again and perform the following: Right-click My Computer, and select Properties.
Select the Advanced tab. Click the Settings button in the User Profiles section. Select the user account that was corrupted. Click the Copy To button. Click Browse button and then browse For Folder dialog box to locate the Documents and Settings folder and select the new account. A confirmation dialog box should appear that informs you that the original files will be deleted and prompts you to confirm the copy operation.
Click Yes. Once the profile is copied, log off from the system and login again with the new username. All the settings of the old account will be copied. Need more help? Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Community Forum Software by IP. Board Licensed to: Geeks to Go, Inc. Facebook Twitter. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Please log in to reply. Posted 24 November - AM. Posted 24 November - PM. For various reasons, it sometimes happens that a user account becomes damaged.
Often the experience you had is a sign that the account is in trouble. It is only that account, not the whole system. It is not really hard to switch over to a new account.
Most of us have an account with Admin rights, but there is also an account named Administrator. As the very first screen starts up after pushing the power button, begin pressing F8 twice a second until you get a black screen with white writing. Hi Wiry. The fact that Windows XP is having trouble loading the user profile suggests that the user profile may be somewhat corrupt.
I would create a new user profile and then copy all the contents from the corrupt user profile to the new profile. For instructions on how to do this take a look here, How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XP.
Evan Omo ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Well, I'm not going to do that unless I have to. I doubt that the user profiles on two computers could be getting corrupted at the same time. I think it's one of the windows updates. But we'll see.
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